Travel Quotes - Page 10

• The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Nature, Adventure

  Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.318

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• It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

  Frederick Sanger

  Adventure, Journey, Discovery

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• Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

  Italo Calvino

  Distance, Clouds, Dust

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• I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Country, Heart, Past

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• The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Feet, Goes On, Traveler

  "Paris From My Window". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1944.

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• If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Anchors, Tourism, Arriving

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Reflection, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.22, Advaita Ashrama

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• I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Airplane, Flying, Mind

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• A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.

  Daniel Handler

  Country, Government, Two

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• Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.

  Italo Calvino

  Motivational, Lying, Past

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• One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Single, Loneliness, Memorable

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.162

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• If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

  Jane Austen

  Adventure, Village, Young

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.437, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

  Albert Einstein

  Wise, Country, Car

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• Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

  John F. Kennedy

  Funny, Home, Cities

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

  Jean Kerr

  Inspirational, Airplane, Weight Loss

  JEAN KERR (1960). “THE SNAKE HAS ALL THE LINES”

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• Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

  Fanny Burney

  Ruins, Building, Seeing

  Cecilia bk. 4, ch. 2 (1782)

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

  Truman Capote

  Food, Italian, Venice

  In Observer 26 Nov. 1961

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• As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Dream, Book, Hero

  Song: Son of a Son of a Sailor

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• A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Struggle, Adventure

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

  Mason Cooley

  Memorable, Thinking, Foreigners

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• The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime's Funniest Person in America. And that's a really tough title to travel around with when you're not even known.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  America, People, Titles

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• And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives.

  Duane G. Carey

  Beautiful, Thinking, Perspective

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• A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.

  Homer

  Thank You, Guests, Host

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